“Sister Zhizhi, you said you wanted to improve yourself. Here’s the money. Whatever you want to learn, find the best teacher to teach you.”
The two men, holding the 10,000 taels of silver notes, were moved to tears.
"I want to treat Qingrong to the best restaurants and the best shows," Qiao Dacheng said.
Qiao Zhizhi also said, "I want to learn to paint and depict beautiful things. I've heard that there are several famous female painters in the capital whose paintings are worth thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver. I want to work hard to achieve that as well."
With Lian'er as her role model, she kept thinking about what she was suited to do.
During this time, she had Pei Qingrong take her to various schools to try learning music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and other skills.
Through some exploration, it was discovered that her favorite and most engaging activity was painting; perhaps this was her greatest talent.
She doesn't want to learn eighteen skills to rely on. She believes that being able to maximize one strength and achieve results, making it something truly valuable in her life, is more useful than being a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.
“Okay, Zhizhi will become an excellent painter someday,” Qiao Lian’er encouraged.
If she had known she could make money so quickly, she wouldn't have been in such a hurry to buy that small house. However, this house is quiet and peaceful amidst the hustle and bustle, quite elegant, which is also nice.
But Qiao Lian'er needed a storefront, so she went to see a large mansion facing the main street.
Even if the imperial family bestows rewards upon us in the future, having a few more houses wouldn't be a bad thing.
With so much money in hand, Qiao Lian'er happily looked at a four-courtyard mansion with a garden and a pond, spending 300,000 taels of silver.
This is a high-class family that has just been raided. Among its properties, apart from valuables, antiques, and paintings, the garden furnishings and furniture inside are still intact and well-preserved, exuding the grandeur and elegance of nobility. The garden is full of blooming flowers, with hundreds of bamboo groves creating a charming atmosphere, and several clumps of lush green banana trees planted. A covered bridge has been built over the pond, extending to the center of the lake, where a waterside pavilion has been erected.
Qiao Lian'er then reassigned the rooms.
The small courtyard was a bit cramped and crowded for storing goods, but now the space is much larger, making it more convenient to sell things and also more discreet.
She took some time to check on the crops in the fiefdom.
More than half a month ago, the fields where rice seeds were first sown have now sprouted batches of tender green seedlings, which are growing very densely and are not turning yellow or withering.
In the Dazeguo area, rice is grown using a method of transplanting rice seedlings separately. Once the seedlings have grown to a certain size, they are pulled out of the paddy field and planted in the paddy field at intervals. This way, the rice has enough space to grow and does not compete for nutrients, thus growing more robustly.
The villagers were overjoyed. At first, they were skeptical and uncertain, but now, seeing that the seedlings were growing much better than before, they knew that there was great hope for the future.
People became much more welcoming to Qiao Lian'er, and some families even gave her eggs and pickled vegetables.
When the carriage returned, there were two more baskets of eggs and several jars of pickled vegetables.
In fact, the villagers' lives revolve around food and clothing. As long as you are genuinely good to them and consider their survival, they will accept you in return.
A few days later, Qiao's army, which had been traveling for a month, finally arrived at their fiefdom.
The three Qiao siblings waited at the entrance to their fiefdom. When they saw their uncles, brothers, and Lady Lü arrive, followed by a large army, a surge of righteous and glorious fighting spirit filled their hearts.
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